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Gathering: 5 minutes
Events: about 3-4 minutes totali’d love to know your secret for completing 5 events in 3 minutes and harvesting 20 resources in 5.
oh wait, there isn’t one.
but OP, mmos have always been about who can play the most wins. you’ll still get your amulet, but it will take longer and i don’t know why that bothers you. there has to be a balance between the people that play 30 min a night and the people that play 8h a day.
Isn’t a secret because everyone knows how to do that
5 minutes in Orr and you’ll have plenty of mithril // wood + doing a few dense events. You know I’m speaking the truth.
you avoided the events part. even if you jump around events, the vast majority take much longer than 3 minutes. you i’m speaking the truth.
No need for me to comment. Your answer is literally scattered on this board and youtube.
Maybe you can save money, and try to buy a newer cpu. first generation ones are pretty bad nowadays. I have 16gb ram, and even with 3dsmax + photoshop i’m not hitting the 50%.
I’m not upgrading my CPU unless absolutely necessary. It’d mean I’d have to take out my motherboard since my cooler is screwed on. At that point I might as well build a new PC entirely
My CPU isn’t the limiting factor, pretty sure of that.
If you undercut by 50g, he can’t buy you out since he’ll lose more than he can potentially make.
Losing even 100 gold doesn’t matter. Precursors are not the main source of income for them, it’s just a hobby.
As such, the price is dictated by the market which is the collective of both buyers and sellers.
Unless there’s a third party, that buys from sellers for low and then sells again for high. In the same TP. So you can’t justify that by “transportation fees”. And there’ll always be a demand for precursors, cause TP is the only way around the RNG.
You don’t make any sense. If these people lose gold on “manipulating”, they’re actually not manipulating. I really don’t get what you’re trying to prove here but whatever it is, your arguments doesn’t hold water.
You can influence the price by not buying it.
Now that’s really naive.
It actually isn’t That’s exactly how an economy works. Buy and sell listings don’t mean anything if people don’t sign them. For all you know, it’s the buy orders that make the majority of precursor trades … That would be pretty normal if the collective market sentiment is that sell orders are too high.
If your precursor is too expensive .. don’t buy it. You have a choice you know…
You see, precursors are just the tip of the greater picture.
I actually don’t care about legendaries at all. I have more than enough gold to buy me consumables and the only things I want are not achieved with money.
But.
In some time this game will be really uncomfortable for new players, at the rate we’re going. Most current players have some steady income and some gold to keep up with the economy.
New players would not have such a luxury. Imagine trying to level crafting with 2x costs. Only to find that there’s no profitable recipes without the gathering grind.
Again … you don’t make sense. I didn’t spend more than a handful of silver on levelling my crafts because you get a lot of mats through map completion. As for making money out of crafting … that’s possible in every craft. Just do a bit of research. This is not a real problem, neither for new nor old players.
But you can continue to live in a dream world where prices are magically lowered just because you don’t buy anything.
Don’t be so silly to use a strawman like that. It makes you look stupid.
In the real world, prices are set by supply and demand. Demand for overpriced goods is low, which means prices will naturally come down. Monopolies eventually fall when other groups want a share of the profits. This has nothing to do with
me not buying things and neither is it magic. It’s a law called supply and demand. This law is always obeyed by everyone, including you and your manipulators.
So while you can live in an Orwellian dreamworld where you can depend on Big Brother to set all prices, I live in the real world where the players as a group decide what a precursor’s worth. And yes, I fully expect the game to mature a bit before the prices settle on something we can all agree on.
Sure I can. Or rather … a.net could. By looking at log in numbers and completion of dailies of all sorts, they can make up some nice graphs. By doing so, they could design their content around a completion rate that 80+% of their playerbase falls into. Personally, I feel laurels are balanced around that. I am personally content with a slow yet steady gain of ascended gear. Maybe a.net could release this info in a blog, but that’d a bit optimistic
Turn it any way you want, but content has to be balanced around people who have 10+ hours of their day planned already. The kind of people that have gasp a job. People that have the disposable income to invest big amounts of money into games they rarely play. I’m thinking of the 30 years old father who takes his 4000 euro race bike to work two or three times a year. Just a thought experiment.
A lot of people have a job. But do you deserve to get more while doing less in an MMO because real life gets in the way? It takes me an hour or so to do the daily while leveling. Not a lot of time. Working people manage it. Working people also manage to run 1 fractal daily.
I don’t expect to get more, I expect to get the same in the long term. You can just get it faster. That means … no gear degradation through successive tiers and a consistent means to get all gear by playing a bit each day. Laurels do exactly that. The whole point is that a company should never scare away the people bringing in the dough. Those who play less are often more inclined to spend real money on their hobbies.
I can not count in the variables in this case. I have no info from Anet about how long an average person plays. It’s completely random. So I take the sole calculation of how many dailies and monthlies in laurels it takes and how much dailies it takes in Fractals.
Also a person working 9 to 5 can invest 3-4 hours a day on an MMO.
On a saturday or sunday they could. Maybe once a week when the wife is out on girls night. 10 consecutive days to get an ascended ring fast … impossible.
Even if I wanted, even if my girlfriend would allow me to ignore her for 10 days straight while she makes my sandwich, pours my drinks and preps my suitcase in the morning … there’s other things in real life that prevent this.
Don’t get me wrong. I love this game. I would play 4 hours a day if I could. But reality is a puppy. I can’t play that much. A day only has 24 hours. That’s plain physics and unless you’re Albert Einstein, you can’t change that.
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but can you count all of those variables in or do you take a number that’s accurate? Like I said I can’t count in the different number of variables because it’s different for every person.
If to count in the variables the number of days that takes to do the fractals might increase as well because what about casuals that only do a fractal daily only once every month? See how you can’t count in the variables?
Sure I can. Or rather … a.net could. By looking at log in numbers and completion of dailies of all sorts, they can make up some nice graphs. By doing so, they could design their content around a completion rate that 80+% of their playerbase falls into. Personally, I feel laurels are balanced around that. I am personally content with a slow yet steady gain of ascended gear. Maybe a.net could release this info in a blog, but that’d a bit optimistic
Turn it any way you want, but content has to be balanced around people who have 10+ hours of their day planned already. The kind of people that have gasp a job. People that have the disposable income to invest big amounts of money into games they rarely play. I’m thinking of the 30 years old father who takes his 4000 euro race bike to work two or three times a year. Just a thought experiment.
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Gathering: 5 minutes
Events: about 3-4 minutes totali’d love to know your secret for completing 5 events in 3 minutes and harvesting 20 resources in 5.
oh wait, there isn’t one.
but OP, mmos have always been about who can play the most wins. you’ll still get your amulet, but it will take longer and i don’t know why that bothers you. there has to be a balance between the people that play 30 min a night and the people that play 8h a day.
Isn’t a secret because everyone knows how to do that
5 minutes in Orr and you’ll have plenty of mithril // wood + doing a few dense events. You know I’m speaking the truth.
Taking a break from time to time would fix your problems
If you consume content at such a pace, you run into that kind of problems, in any game.
Just kill the mob and tell him to l2p so he can do the daily while actually playing.
If you really want to do it easy, got agro 5 drakes in Queensdale, roll into their breath attack. 5 dodges per roll. Too easy. That’s why I don’t do it
I don’t see anything wrong with time gating. In GW1 it took me almost a year to get my 20 slot equipment bag.
I’m skipping some dailies and some monthlies. No big deal. As long as ascended remains the top tier, I can just slowly gain whatever I want. I’ve got all the time in the world